Yoopla, I'm back online. Or almost back online, since real life issues are eating most of my free time : I'll be moving by the end of the month, gotta find a house, a babysitter and a school for kids, those things. In other news : I have two invites for Vox, SixApart's latest buzz machine, if you're curious and…
My buddy Tim Yang's website is back online. So is Problogger Clean, a WordPress theme we've worked together on.
Basically, a plugin for WordPress creates a PHP function (called a filter or an action) which is triggered when a particular event (called a hook) occurs. When several filters are supposed to be triggered by the same hook, you can define their priority. When you're writing a plugin and you're facing unexpected behavior, it may be a priority issue :…
I knew about the excellent WordPress Xref (read: cross-ref) maintained by Owen Winkler. This is a cross reference of all functions, variables and constants used and defined in WordPress, which provides worthy help when coding things in or for WordPress. I just found about Functions, another project from the same man, which adds a handier way of searching WordPress functions…
Two days ago, there was a nice surprise waiting for me in my inbox : a notice from Paypal telling me that someone had tipped a few bucks in, using my Paypal "Sponsor me I'm doing cool plugins" button (which appears only on plugin pages, if you want to try it:) It's been the first donation I've had so far…
My Youtube Favorite Videos is my latest plugin. Err widget. Well, actually, plugin and widget. Plugget. And guess what, it displays your latest favorite videos from Youtube, right on your blog. Yes. I know you love it already. Get it.
Some guy had a fun idea : modify his wp-comments.php so this file would write back 47 MB to spambots that try to POST something into it. Waste of bandwidth or ultimate answer ? Apparently he got completely rid of spam in a few days :)
Too much spam getting caught here.
A few months ago, Tim Yang and I released a 3 columns theme for WordPress, Problogger Clean. For the last two or three months, Tim Yang has been experiencing various host and ISP problems, and as of today, the theme is no longer available from its "official" location. I've been asked several times for a download link, which I don't…
Sirius: a clean and localized theme for WordPress that makes a very nice use of my Theme Toolkit, I like it.